Cases

NYC Model pleads guilty to taking Toronto baby

April 1, 2011
NYC Model pleads guilty to taking Toronto baby
By: CBC News  Click here for the CBC NEWS STORY
Cbc.ca
A New York Model and actor has admitted to abducting a Toronto baby at a bogus Bollywood movie casting call last December.
An aspiring actor and model from New York City has admitted to abducting a Toronto baby [...]


Suspects in condo killing due in court

Louie Rosella
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April 18, 2010

Three people facing charges in connection with last spring’s slaying of a Colombian national behind a City Centre condominium, will be appearing in court in the coming days.
Hearings are being arranged for the three men arrested in the murder outside Chelsea Towers, on Shipp Dr. back on June 2.
Just after 10 p.m., [...]


Teen often raced cars, crown says

Teen often raced cars, crown says
Accused granted bail in collision that injured three

Bob Mitchell
Peel/ Halton Bureau Chief

A Mississauga teenager, charged after three people were injured and a woman’s 6- month- old fetus was killed in a street race, regularly races his father’ car, the crown has told a court.

Alexandru Bejinariu, 18, was [...]


DRIVERS NOT GUILTY OF STREET RACING

June 19-20 edition
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DRIVERS NOT GUILTY OF STREET RACING

Louie Rosella
Staff
The Mississauga News

Two Mississauga drivers charges with street racing causing an expectant mother to lose her unborn child have been acquitted of criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Alexandru Bejinariu, 20, left Superior Court Friday with his family after Justice Hugh Atwood found him [...]


Yemeni detainee to fight passport charges

November 23, 2001

Yemeni detainee to fight passport charges

Sam Pazzano
Courts Bureau
The Toronto Sun

A Yemeni man will go to trial December 19 to fight extradition charges to the U.S. after two Lufthansa airlines crew uniforms and false passports were found in his luggage on a flight to Chicago.

Lawyer Gary Batasar, who represents Nageed [...]


Extradition request filed for Yemeni man

November 20, 2001

Extradition request filed for Yemeni man

Toronto Star

The United States has files a formal extradition request for a Yemeni man in custody in Toronto, but the documents don’t mention any charges relating to September 11, the day he was detained, his lawyers say.

The U.S. government sent the documents to Canadian [...]


Extradition request filed for Yemeni man


Detained man has ill daughter in Detroit

November 8, 2001

Detained man has ill daughter in Detroit

Donovon Vincent
Staff reporter
Toronto Star

A Yemeni man in jail hre, who was detained after his Chicago- bound flight landed at Pearson airport on September 11, was headed to Detroit to be with his sick daughter, the girl’s doctor says.

Dr. Achiau Ludomirsky wrote in a [...]


Manslaughter Charge against teen withdrawn

Manslaughter Charge against Teen Withdrawn

March 30/2009

Bob Mitchell
Staff Reporter

A manslaughter charge was withdrawn today from a Mississauga teen accused of playing a role in the thanksgiving weekend slaying of another young man.

The teen, 14, had earlier been granted bail soon after he was arrested last October in connection with the stabbing death [...]


Manslaughter charges withdrawn in stabbing

Manslaughter charges withdrawn in stabbing

By: Louie Rosella

March 30, 2009 04:30pm-A manslaughter charge against a 15 year old Mississauga boy accused in the fatal stabbing of an older teen at a house party has been dropped.
The charge was withdrawn earlier today in Brampton court by the Crown Attorney.
Last week, a seventeen year old boy [...]


Mother of Slain Brampton Teen Grieves

Mother of Slain Brampton Teen Grieves

Sunita Dharamdial is prepared for many more agonizing days and sleepless nights, trying to deal with the death of her son Rajiv.

Even if it means being in court for every appearance of the 15-year-old Brampton boy who police allege took her 14-year-old son’s life.

The accused teen made another brief court appearance yesterday [...]


Arrest Made in Rajiv Dharamdial Murder

Arrest Made in Rajiv Dharamdial Murder

 

A 15-year-old youth, arrested today in the stabbing death last week of a 14-year-old boy as he walked home from school, appeared in a Brampton courtroom late this afternoon.
 
Rajiv Dharamdial was stabbed to death last Tuesday. He called 911 in a frantic attempt to save his own life.
 
Peel Police confirmed earlier this afternoon that they [...]


Accused Teen Killer in Court Again

Accused Teen Killer in Court Again

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brampton-When her street was wrapped in Police tape, Sunita Dharamdial waited anxiously for her son to come home.
 
He didn’t.
 
When his body lay in a casket, she prayed for him to wake up.
 
He didn’t.
 
And when his accused killer stood in a prisoner’s box yesterday, she wanted him to look her in the eyes.
 
He didn’t.
 
“I would like [...]


Bristol Rd. Resident Pleads Guilty to Firearms Offences

Bristol Rd. Resident Pleads Guilty to Firearms Offences

 
A 24-year old Mississauga Man arrested after Peel Regional Police found three loaded handguns inside a Bristol Rd. apartment earlier this year, has pleaded guilty to a number of firearms offences.
 
Harun Murad was originally facing 15 firearm charges, including careless storage of a firearm and possession of a loaded firearm. But, he pleaded guilty [...]


ACCUSED KILLERS TRYING FOR BAIL

ACCUSED KILLERS TRYING FOR BAIL

Two of three teenagers charged in connection with the stabbing death of a Mississauga man outside a house party last month, are trying to be released on bail.
 
Both teens, aged 14 and 16, cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA). The younger teen is charged with manslaughter, while the older teen is [...]


Arrests in Killing of boy, 14

Arrests in Killing of boy, 14

 
 
Arrests have been made in connection with last week’s stabbing death of a 14-year old Brampton Boy.

Rajiv Dharamdial was slain last Tuesday as he walked home after school. The Grade 9 student at Sandalwood Heights Secondary School made a 911 call after being attacked at about 3:30pm. In an undeveloped ravine that runs behind [...]


Testing times for Canadian tolerance

Testing times for Canadian tolerance
By Daniel Lak
BBC News, Toronto
No bombs exploded. No buildings or people were attacked. But what Canadian police say was a timely operation to stop a terror campaign inspired by al-Qaeda could change how this country sees itself.
Twelve men and five youths have been charged with offences related to [...]


LAWYERS ABANDON PETITION

LAWYERS ABANDON PETITION

Restrictions on suspects suspended

 

 
 

Louie Rosella
Staff

Officials at Milton’s Maplehurst Detention Centre are lifting some restrictions on the men charged in connection with the alleged Meadowvale-based terrorist cell following complaints from their lawyers, well placed sources say.

Gary Batasar and Michael Moon, lawyers for Steven Chand, 25, of Toronto were [...]


Yemeni man tells court there is a plot to get him

October 3, 2001

Yemeni man tells court there is a plotto get him
Nageeb Al- Hadi, detained September 11, begs to tell his whole story

Donovan Vincent
Staff reporter
The Toronto Star

A Yemeni man detained in Toronto on the same day as the World Trade Centre attacks said in court that there’s a plot to get him.
[...]


Day In Court

October 4, 2001

Day In Court

Pulse.com

Nageeb Abdul Jabar Mohamed Al- Hadi finally has a lawyer. And now the man who’s been detained since the September 11th terrorist attacks forced his Lufthansa flight to be diverted to Pearson airport, is looking for answers. And so are investigators.

Al- Hadi was discovered carrying three different [...]


The Price of safety can be cruel

Friday, October 5, 2001

The Price of safety can be cruel

Heather Bird
The Toronto Sun

It’s possible, one supposes, but quite unlikely, that Nageeb Al- Hadi was simply getting an early jump on Halloween preparations.

That would, at least, be one innocent explanation as to why two Lufthansa uniforms were found in the Yemeni man’s [...]


Yemeni Suspect held in custody in “DEPLORABLE” way, lawyer says

October 5, 2001

Yemeni Suspect held in custody in “DEPLORABLE” way, lawyer says
Not allowed phone calls

Tom Blackwell
National Post

A Yemeni man wanted by the U.S. terrorism investigation is one of several inmates with Arabic names being held under extraordinary security at the Toronto jail, the man’s lawyer said yesterday.

Gary Batasar told [...]


War against Terrorism

Friday, October 5, 2001

War against Terrorism
Man treated poorly: Lawyer

Donovan Vincent
Staff Reporter
Toronto Star

A lawyer representing a Yemeni man detained in Toronto the same day as the horrific attacks in the United States has complained in court about his client’s treatment in custody.

“I take umbrage with the way he’s been treated,” Nageeb al- Hadi’s [...]


War on Terrorism: 21 men who deserve the rule of law.

October 26, 2001

War on Terrorism
21 men who deserve the rule of law
Christie Blatchford

Regardless of official protestations that no one has been arrested in relation to Sept. 11, mysterious men were popping up in prison jumpsuits in court proceedings across the country. Note to Muslims from the Middle East: Now is not a good [...]